When
   November 13 –14, 2007
   Where
   Stanhope Hotel
   Brussels, Belgium

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DITA Europe Conference Sponsors

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For 25 years, the company's award-winning software and technologies have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident across industries and felt by anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information. With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected and recognizable software brands, Adobe is one of the world's largest and most diversified software companies.

Antenna House, Inc. was founded in August of 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, as a software company, focused on data usability. Antenna House, Inc. has led data conversion Sector in Japan since August of 1984. We currently operate out of 4 international Locations and welcome New Partners from around the Globe.

Comet ranks among the leading providers of technical documentation. Our core services include print and online documentation, information architecture, and training courses. We design, create, and translate technical documentation for electronic and printed publication. We have gained a unique position in this sector of the German market thanks to our years of specialist experience with online documentation. We are responsible for the creation of the entire documentation for many large projects and develop future-oriented solutions based on the latest technology.

Comtech Services has been in the content management industry for more than 25 years—beginning with the development of information resources for sales and marketing, new business proposals, key corporate reports and analyses, product documentation, and training material.

Today, we work with you to help you handle the phenomenal growth in information resources. You need processes, Information Models, and structured information designs to organize and manage the thousands of images, pages of text, and other assets so that they are available to all your users, inside your organization and out. We help you structure your content so it meets the needs of your users, put processes in place that ensure your authors know how to meet the standards, and select the best technology solution to support your requirements.

DocZone.com's mission is to provide the benefits of XML-based content automation, without the typical overhead associated with large capital software expenditures or months of analysis. Our solution is built on a foundation of proven, production-ready technology; built on open standards and integrated into a seamless delivery environment, available on a hosted basis for a low monthly fee. We strive for rapid deployment, with an objective to move our clients into a production environment within 30 days.

Inmedius is a global leader in providing technical publication lifecycle solutions that capture, create, manage and deploy technical information. Integrating those information assets within business processes, using proven and innovative techniques, is an Inmedius hallmark. Providing lifecycle solutions to aerospace, defense and technical publications departments worldwide, Inmedius enables its clients to share an unprecedented level of productivity and efficiency -- empowering every corner of the organization. Easy to implement, maintain and use, Inmedius' fully integrated COTS software solutions make every facet of a project possible throughout its entire lifecycle.

XMetaL® is the world’s leading XML content creation and collaboration solution, advancing the goals of globally-focused, customer-driven organizations. XMetaL’s family of software and services enables your company to create, share, reuse, and deliver content more quickly and cost-effectively, across all customer channels, from sales, marketing, and customer service, to training and technical support. Visit www.xmetal.com to learn how leading brands such as Cisco, Daimler Chrysler, HP, Kodak, Microsoft, Philips, RIM, Southwest Airlines, Sybase, Symantec, Texas Instruments, and USA Today use XMetaL to bring products and services to market faster, with greater accuracy, and at lower cost.

Mekon is leading UK systems integrators focused on increasing the effectiveness of your content creation, management and delivery. Thought leaders in XML and complex content processes, we leverage our expertise and cross-industry client experience to contribute educational whitepapers, seminars and technology to the marketplace.

Mekon has a well defined methodology for investigating client processes and business, to truly understand the overall strategy and delivering scalable systems that focus on a business' ROI. Partnering with the major DITA and XML technology vendors gives Mekon a unique and un-biased insight into which technologies are suitable for specific client needs. As a result Mekon is ideally placed to help you leverage your content as a critical strategic business asset. Most recently Mekon contributed the well received FrameMaker Adapter component for the DITA Open Toolkit and continue to provide leading Authoring products for the S1000D community.

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. The consortium produces standards for Web services, security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets.

PTC solutions for enterprise publishing enable companies to automate the assembly and publishing of product or service information in multiple languages and formats. These solutions are made up of the Arbortext product family and are used by 30% of Fortune 500 companies in the manufacturing, life sciences, publishing, government, insurance and financial services industries.

PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) provides leading product lifecycle management (PLM), content management and enterprise publishing solutions to more than 40,000 companies worldwide. PTC customers include the world's most innovative companies in manufacturing, publishing, services, government and life sciences industries. PTC is included in the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 indices.

SDL is the leader in the emerging market for Global Information Management (GIM) solutions that empower organizations to improve the quality and accelerate the delivery of high quality multilingual content to global markets. Its enterprise software and services integrate with existing systems, including XML content and Content Management Systems, to manage global information right through from authoring to publication.

Operating from offices in the UK and North America, Stilo International (LSE:STL) provides leading solutions for advanced content migration, technical information publishing and product lifecycle management.

Stilo's OmniMark provides an application development and high performance run-time environment for XML content processing applications, meeting the most demanding requirements for content conversion, content transformation and content interchange.

Stilo's interactive Technical Information Publisher (iTIP) provides an integrated, browser-based environment for organizations that create, manage and deliver technical information across the full product lifecycle, including mission-critical equipment systems in the aerospace, defense, automotive, transportation, manufacturing and engineering sectors.

Tedopres, with offices in Europe, the United States and Asia, has been offering professional technical documentation services since 1974. We have an outstanding reputation of providing our customers with cost-effective, high-quality service that meets industry-specific standards.

Tedopres has extensive experience in implementing Simplified Technical English (also known as Controlled English), helping our customers to ensure compliance while saving cost at the same time. The implementation comprises dictionary building, training and the use of HyperSTE, the leading quality assurance software for technical content.

Simplified Technical English is a long-term and comprehensive initiative designed to standardize the way technical publications are written. It facilitates document structuring by specs like DITA in a reliable, cost-effective and efficient way, and facilitates content management through optimum reusability. Moreover, Simplified Technical English will help you save translation cost savings by over 30% per language!

From its foundation in 1987 onwards, Trisoft has focused on the corporate electronic publishing market, serving large clients including Atlas Copco, Electrabel, FET, Janssen Pharma, KB (now KBC), Philips, Roche. As such, Trisoft acquired a deep expertise with technologies like XML, Postscript, PDF and Full Text Retrieval.

In 2001, Trisoft developed InfoShare, an out-of-the-box solution for technical communication. Since its inception, the InfoShare solution has realized outstanding success: many large corporations such as Atlas Copco, DAF Trucks, OCE, Maruboshi, Mitsubishi Motors Europe, Linde, Still, Oilon and others have chosen InfoShare as support tool for their professional technical communication departments, enabling them to efficiently create, translate, personalize and publish their technical product information such as user manuals, service manuals, training material and on-line help.

XyEnterprise provides organizations of all sizes with content and document management solutions that streamline the information creation and delivery process. XyEnterprise combines its own XML content management, workflow and publishing software with integration services that allow organizations to derive and leverage the inherent value of collaborative creation, management, assembly, and multi-channel distribution of content required in today’s dynamic publishing environment.


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